"I deny the charge and I will be requesting the opportunity to attend the commission for a personal hearing"

John Terry

In court, prosecutors claimed that Terry snapped in response to insults about an alleged extramarital affair and bellowed "(expletive) black (expletive)'' at Ferdinand.

But Terry said he only used the offensive term sarcastically to counter the obscenity he claims Ferdinand was accusing him of using.

The magistrate who ruled on the case at Westminster Magistrates' Court said in his judgment that Terry's explanation was "certainly under the cold light of forensic examination, unlikely.''

But he found Terry not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence after deciding it was "impossible'' to be sure what the defender said.

The FA, which has already interviewed Ferdinand and Terry, had to suspend its investigation into October's west London derby when the police probe kicked in.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was banned for eight matches last season for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra during another Premier League match in October

Source:AP

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